Access to Justice Research in Australia

Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee (‘Senate Committee’), Inquiry into the Australian Legal Aid System, Third Report, (1998) 17.

Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee, Legal Aid and Access to Justice (2004) 40. See also, Australian Law Reform Commission, Managing Justice: A Review of the Federal Civil Justice System, Report No 89 (2000) recs 39, 40.

See Johnsen J , ‘Studies of Legal Needs and Legal Aid in a Market Context’ in Regan F Paterson A Goriely T and Fleming D (eds), The Transformation of Legal Aid (1999); Pleasence P and Buck A , ‘Needs Assessment and Prioritisation of Legal Services in England and Wales’ in International Legal Aid Group Papers Vol 1 & 2, Australia (2001); Pleasence P , ‘Needs Assessment and Community Legal Services in England and Wales’; Currie A , ‘The Nature and Extent of Unmet Need for Criminal Legal Aid in Canada’ in International Legal Aid Group Papers, USA (2003).

Currie A , ‘The Emergence of Unmet Needs as an Issue in Canadian Legal Policy Research’ in International Legal Aid Group Papers, Vol 11 (2001) 32, 71.

A selection of work includes; Cass M and Sackville R , Legal Needs of the Poor, Research Report, Law and Poverty Series (1975); Cass M and Western J , Legal Aid and Legal Need, Commonwealth Legal Aid Commission (1980); Hanks P , Social Indicators and the Delivery of Legal Services (1986). A recent exception is the Rush Social Research Agency and John Walker Consulting Services, Legal Assistance Needs Project: Phase One and Two (1999).

Professor Rosemary Hunter outlined some of this research, both completed and ongoing, at the Legal Aid Congress. See Hunter R , Legal Aid Research in Australia and Future Needs (2004) <http://www.legalaid.qld.gov.au/congress2004/content/papers/Thu18-Plenary2-RosemaryHunter.ppt> at 2 February 2006.

For a complete list of publications see <http://www.naclc.org.au/docs/Assessing_Legal_Needs.pdf> 1 at 2 February 2006.

Schetzer L , ‘Measuring Legal Needs’ (Paper presented at National Community Legal Centre Conference, Hobart, September 2003) <http://www.naclc.org.au/docs/Assessing_Legal_Needs.pdf> 1 at 2 February 2006.

Extracted from Law and Justice Foundation New South Wales website: <http://www.lawfoundation.net.au/access/> at 21 April 2005.

Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales, Access to Justice Roundtable, Proceedings of a Workshop July 2000 (2003).

Schetzer L and Henderson J , Access to Justice and Legal Needs; Stage 1: Public Consultations Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales (2003).

Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales, Access to Justice and Legal Needs; Stage 1: Data Digest Sydney (2003).

Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales, Access to Justice and Legal Needs; Stage 2: Quantitative Legal Needs Survey Bega Valley (Pilot) (2003); Schetzer L , above, n 8.

Not released at time of writing.

Ellison S , The Legal Needs of Older People in NSW (Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales, 2004).

Vernon C , Demons, Damsels or Discord — Exploring the Legal Needs of Young Women, Youth Legal Service Inc (2002) 1.

The numbers of participants in the discussion groups are not provided: ibid 3.

Ibid 9–10.

Ibid 16.

Aplin S , Analysis of the Legal Needs of Horn of Africa People in Melbourne, (Pro Bono Fellowship Report 2002) 17–19.

Ibid p 22–26.

Ibid 46.

Legal Aid Queensland, Northern Outreach — A Client Needs Survey of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf of Carpentaria (2001) 7.

Ibid 38–39.

Ibid 7 and 54.

For a discussion of the reviews see Giddings J and Noone M A , ‘Australian Community Legal Centres Move into the Twenty-first Century’ (2004) (11)3 International Journal of the Legal Profession 257, 261–263.

Inner City Legal Centre et al, Law for All: An Analysis of Legal Needs in Inner Sydney Today (2000) 3–4.

Ibid 58–59.

Law Council of Australia, Erosion of Legal Representation in the Australian Justice System (2004) Executive Summary paras 2–4.

Ibid 12.

Ibid Ch 4, 5.

Ibid 76.

Hunter R Giddings J and Chrzanowski A , Legal Aid and Self-Representation in the Family Court of Australia (Socio Legal Research Centre, Griffith University 2003) 33–34.

Ibid iii.

Ibid 34.

Ibid v, 34.

Legal Aid Queensland and Brunton Colmar , Tracking Access & Equity in Legal Aid Queensland (2004) 2.

Ibid 11.

Renouf G , Justice Too Far Away: Report of the Tennant Creek Regional Legal Access Project, (Northern Territory Legal Aid Commission 2003) 13–15.

Ibid 23.

Ibid 6.

Hunter R , above n 6.

Senate Committee, Legal Aid and Access to Justice (2004) 1.

Ibid.

Ibid 221.

See report of plenary sessions <http://www.legalaid.qld.gov.au/congress2004/> at 2 February 2006.